Hello everyone! We are just HOURS away from the official release of The Awakened and I’m SO excited to share the official trailer to get you even more pumped for this book!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRe7rS7fgik&sns=fb
What do you guys think? Are you all getting excited?
My very first book is releasing tomorrow, The Awakened. I am so insanely excited and anxious and nervous and excited about this. This is literally every single dream come true right now and I can’t wait to celebrate with you guys tomorrow. I had to share this with you guys for the Music Monday because it had SUCH a huge influence on this novel and it helped me get the inspiration to finish it! I like to call this song the unofficial theme song of The Awakened so I hope you enjoy listening to this.
They’re coming, viagra dosage creeping from the corner
And all I know is that I don’t feel safe
I feel the tapping on my shoulder
I turn around in an alarming state
But am I loosing my mind?
I really think so
Not a creature in sight
But what you don’t know is that
My breathing gets faster
And so does my heartbeat
I wish this was over
I wish that this was a dream but
I created a monster, store a hell within my head
Nowhere to go, I’m out on my own
Oh I’m so scared
I created a monster, a beast inside my brain
Nowhere to go, I’m not on my own
My mind impaired to wake me from my nightmare
Wait, something doesn’t feel right (feel right)
No, something seems wrong (wrong)
And I’ve been feeling this way (oh that’s too bad), for far too long
As my vision gets blurred, my skin’s getting colder
Appearing young, while I’m growing older
I collapse to the floor and scream:
“Can anybody save me from myself?”
I created a monster, a hell within my head
Nowhere to go, I’m out on my own
Oh I’m so scared (oh, oh I’m so scared)
I created a monster, a beast inside my brain
Nowhere to go, I’m not on my own
My mind impaired to wake me from my nightmare
Walking to the ledge, I find myself looking down
Frozen still with fear, now I’m plunging to the ground
If only I knew how to fly, then I could convince myself
This isn’t my time to die
Instead I’m rocketing faster and faster
I dive, fall to the floor
And when my body crashes to the pavement
I’m right back where I was before
I created a monster, a hell within my head
Nowhere to go, I’m out on my own
Oh I’m so scared
I created a monster, a hell within my head
Nowhere to go, I’m out on my own
Oh I’m so scared, no, no
I created a monster, a beast inside my brain
Nowhere to go, I’m not on my own
My mind impaired to wake me from my nightmare
(I’m so scared) Awake me from my nightmare
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Welcome to The Awakened Blog Tour! I am so excited to introduce the blogs below, check the ones that will be on an almost two week tour of awesome, all revolving around MY book.
I seriously can’t get over this…this is the COOLEST thing ever :)
Today I’m just here to share the tour schedule and the giveaway and all that fun stuff. I’ll have more personal things to say when I return on the tour (LOL I’m on my own tour), on the release date of my novel.
God that’s crazy to say.
But definitely come back, stick around! Lots of super great stuff is going on. There are a lot of great blogs participating. There’s a giveaway down below and lots of blogs are hosting interviews and guest posts from moi! Its going to be exciting.
I’m also doing a promotion! If you preorder the Kindle version of The Awakened (found here), you can earn a signed bookmark, and the bookmarks are pretty cool if I do say so myself. All you have to do is screen shot your proof and send it to my author email (sesantanawrites at gmail dot com) with your address and I’ll send you one (or two!).
So check out the schedule, come back for more and make sure to enter the giveaway!
Check out the entire tour for more information about the book, interviews, guest posts, excerpts and more!
November 26th: Reading and Reviews / What A Nerd Girl Says
November 27th: Living Within Fiction
November 28th: Lisa of Literature / Seeking Bazinga
November 29th: Chloe’s Book Nook / Book and Movies Addict
November 30th: Tine’s Reviews / Escape from Realities
December 1st: What A Nerd Girl Says / The Book Academy / Bookish Wonderland
December 2nd: Recently Acquired Obsessions / Morgan Reads
December 3rd: Case Maynard, Author / Movies, Shows and Books
December 4th: Bout of Bibliophilia
December 5th: Tesairie’s Book Reads / iFandoms Collide
December 6th: Just One of Those Bibliophiles / A Traveling Book / Endlessly Readings
December 7th: My Life in Blog / Erin Rhew Books
December 8th: Metamorphic Books / Knightingale Reviews
December 9th: Reading Over Sleeping / Always and Forever Fangirl
Prizes:
One Grand Prize Winner: Signed Copy of The Awakened, Signed Poster, Signed Bookmark
One First Prize Winner: Signed Poster and Signed Bookmark
Two Second Prize Winners: Kindle Copy of The Awakened and Signed Bookmark
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“Okay, okay,” I said, breathing heavily. The car was gaining us, getting closer and closer, and it was close enough that I could see that it was a large SUV, black or maybe dark blue, with heavily tinted windows. It looked like a car that my dad would have driven. This made me nervous. This was not a typical car; most people did not drive cars like this. “Ash, they’re right behind us.”
He didn’t answer; just pushed his foot harder on the gas, but the jeep only increased speed by a couple miles per hour. It was old, outdated and had been pushed farther in the last few hours than it had in the past few months. We both gasped as the car pulled next to us. “Shit,” Ash said under his breath.
The window of the SUV rolled down, and a man peeked his head out, motioning for us to roll our own window down. He was older, maybe in his late forties or early fifties, judging by the small amount of gray dotting his hair and beard. He was yelling at us, but I couldn’t hear him over the sound of both engines as they sped along. He was dressed nicely, I could see the beginnings of a tie at the base of his throat, and I felt uneasy, uncomfortable. I hadn’t seen anyone dressed so nice, so impeccably since we had left New York. This wasn’t right.
The car moved closer and closer to us before bumping into us. The jeep shook, but Ash’s hands were still gripping tightly on the wheel, and he managed to keep us aligned. “Did they just hit us, or was that an earthquake that shook the car?” he asked, a shaky laugh in his breath.
“No, no, they hit us,” I said, my hands gripping the dashboard tightly. I felt like I was going to be sick. We only had to drive half a day. Half a day to reach Colorado, and we would have been able to find a place of safety. And yet, here we were. A shock ran through my body as the SUV made contact with the Jeep again, this time much harder than before. “Oh my god.”
“What do you want me to do, Z?” Ash asked, through clenched teeth. His eyes were intent on the rugged terrain in front of us as the Jeep bounced over rocks and grass. I didn’t know where we were heading, whether we would end up in a town or at a cliff. I could see hills in the distance, and I didn’t know what was over there. The SUV hit us again, shaking the entire car.
“Stop,” I said, the word bursting out of me. “Just stop the car, okay?”
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I know, buy I know, buy not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving but I’m feeling particularly festive this week! I have a Magnus Chase giveaway going on right now, website I’m about to eat LOTS of food very soon, and my book releases in exactly a week! There’s plenty to be excited about and plenty to be thankful for.
I’m excited to hopefully get more involved with blogging, seeing as I’ve been very bad at it lately. I’ve been SO SO insanely busy but I’m glad to be back. I thought returning to the Tuesday Top Ten with a post about authors that I’m thankful for!
They are in no particular order :)
It should come as no surprise that Queen Rowling ended up on this list. She is easily my favorite author and she has been an influence on me since I was a child. She is an incredible writer, one of the best world builders I’ve ever encountered and full of so much magic and love. I feel a connection to her books and to her struggle through poverty and welfare and depression, and how she’s conquered so much of that. She’s a beautiful human being and I’m so glad that I’ve been lucky enough to read her the past 17 years. Her books saved me from a ton of heartbreak as a child, she gave me an escape when I had none and I would not be here as the person I am without her.
I’m grateful for Tamora Pierce for so many reasons. For being a great writer. For being insanely sweet when I met her and cried my eyes out. For creating strong female characters long before most of the YA authors we know did. For writing amazing fantasy. But I think mostly I am grateful to her for giving me my love for fantasy. Besides Harry Potter and LoTR, I wasn’t much into fantasy until I discovered her Tortall books. That’s when I learned how familiar fantasy can be, how you can get lost in this world that is completely made up but still feels as familiar as the one you know. Tammy gave me my love for fantasy…easily.
I honestly have to thank Cassandra Clare for a lot of things. She gave me two incredible series that are easily my favorites. She gave me worlds that gave me a ton of bravery. But mostly? Her books came into my life at a time when I was falling apart and I didn’t know if I could get back out of it. I was depressed, more so than I had ever been in my life, when I found myself wandering the bookstore and stumbled upon City of Bones and that book saved me from myself. The whole series did. I’m so thankful for Cassandra and her books.
I can’t even begin to describe the gratitude I have for Jessica Brody. As an author and as a friend. She is a great author and has been an incredible inspiration for me. I love knowing that she writes contemporary and science fiction, adult and YA and she gives me the motivation to be all over the place too in my writing. But she also is the reason I’m the blogger than I am and the writer than I am, the person I am. She taught me so many amazing tricks. She has given me the best advice. She has lead me on the right path so many times. I can’t even begin to describe how much she means to me.
The fact that I can call this amazing, talented, fantastic, hilarious author friend blows my mind every single time. She’s fabulous. She’s a great writer, one that blows my mind with each and every book that I read by her. She is so inspiring with her world building; it makes me work harder and harder. She’s a great friend, and she’s given me great advice over the years. She’s made me feel important and she’s made me believe that I can do this. I’m so grateful for that. And I’m so grateful for these amazing books that she’s given us.
I am so thankful for Andrew Smith…because he is one of the best authors I’ve ever read, in my entire life, for so many reasons. He is able to write so many things in one, humor and fantasy and science fiction and romance and all of this in one big thing. He’s incredibly talented and very humble about it. And he connects with his fans so well. He treats them all with such respect and I admire it so much. I admire his love for literature, his love for his family, for travel, for his job, and his passion for just being himself and writing the books he wants to write. I wish very much that I could be more like him, as a writer and a person. And through all of this…he calls me friend. That is just the most surreal thing ever.
I adore JLA. I love her so much and its because I hope to be an author like her. She writes with humor and she writes everything. She writes paranormal and fantasy and romance and science fiction and so many of her books are so good. I’ve been rereading the Covenant series recently and I’m remembering why I love it so much and I’m reminded of how much that series was a huge influence on The Awakened. She’s so incredible. I love that she writes with humor, like the way she would talk, because I do the same thing. She’s a huge influence for me. I also love her because she wrote Scorched, which tackled mental illness and really hit home for me. I love that when I told her what that book meant to me, she hugged me and told me she was proud of me for getting help. She’s an amazing author and person.
I think Rainbow Rowell is one of the best YA authors to exist right now. She writes stories that just grab you and make you feel like yelling, yes, exactly, this is exactly right. She writes the human soul so well…all of her books bring tears to my eyes because of how well she captures human emotion. But I am so grateful and thankful for her because she wrote Fangirl. That book’s main character, Cath, is one of the only characters I can say with 100% certainty is much much like me. I kept reading through the book, thinking, yes, this is exactly how I feel. This is exactly what I mean. This is exactly the person I am. She just…its like she took my personality and put it on paper. I am so thankful for her creating a character that I can connect with so much.
Its funny that Richelle Mead came to mean so insanely much to me when I avoided reading the Vampire Academy series for SO SO long. But eventually I did it and I am so glad I did because Richelle writes beautiful fantasy which fantastically sassy main characters. Her Rose Hathaway is one of my favorite characters ever and was a huge influence on my Zoey Valentine for sure. She’s an incredible influence…and she showed me that you can take something that has been done a million times, like vampires, like zombies, and turn it into your own story, something new and unique and compelling. The Awakened exists a lot because of her and her series.
I cheated and put eleven authors on this list. I know, I said ten but whatever. Eleven works well. I had to put Melissa on here because I am so thankful for her as an author. She has always been a sweetheart to me and has always treated me with the utmost respect. And I just love her books. Her books showed me that you can have science fiction and romance in one and make it work so well. Alienated was a massive influence on The Awakened in the romance sense. Aelyx and Cara’s relationship influences Zoey and Ash’s so much and I’m so incredibly grateful for her fabulous blend of science fiction and romance. May she continue to write awesome books again and again.
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Who are some of the authors YOU are grateful for? Share in the comments!
Happy Thanksgiving week everyone!
I know that not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving, considering there is only one out of many countries in the world that celebrate the US holiday…the US. Crazy concept LOL.
But I’m bringing EVERYONE into Thanksgiving this week. This week I’m profiling the newest release from Rick Riordan and sharing an epic giveaway with you all!
First off, let’s revisit our good friend, Rick, why don’t we?
Dance until we just can’t, viagra 100mg
Keep clapping our hands to the songs
And get dancing around to the joyful sound that the band plays
As his smiling face just shines away, viagra it’s moving through town as big as a train
April, May, June and July we’ll hang outside
August and February all the time
Talking our way through March
Hanging out always ’til this starts
Over and over again, you promise that it won’t end
So I will try to find the rhyme to thank you again
How I, I am not into the idea of living without you
And I, I am not into the idea of being without you
And no, this won’t be a sad song
There’s gonna be claps and singing along
‘Cause sad song’s about now well, that would just feel wrong
Beautiful colors that came from you
So this one goes out to the reds and yellows and blues
And of course I cant forget, all the beautiful colors on the day that we first met
So I will never know the right way to say thanks
for all the nights and days you spent hanging out
‘Cause that’s what this is about
How I, I am not into the idea of living without you
And I, I am not into the idea of being without you
And no, this won’t be a sad song
There’s gonna be claps and singing along
‘Cause you’re there when you talk and you’re there not to stop and you’re with me
Around the clock, you are, you are
Around the clock, yes you are
Around the clock
And just so ya’ll know everyone else is not
so I, I am not into the idea of living without you
And I, I am not into the idea…
And no, this won’t be a sad song
There’s gonna be claps and singing along
‘Cause you’re there when you talk and you’re there not to stop
and you’re with me around the clock
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